We used to trigger the special case "things not in origin"
semantics only when one and only one positive ref is given, and
no number (e.g. "git format-patch -4 origin") was specified, and
used the general revision range semantics for everything else.
This narrows the special case a bit more, by making:
git format-patch --root this_version
to show everything that leads to the named commit.
More importantly, document the two different semantics better.
The generic revision range semantics came later and bolted on
without being clearly documented.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Document -<n> for git-format-patch
glossary: add 'reflog'
diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files
Don't smash stack when $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is too long
The -<n> option was not mentioned in git-format-patch's manpage till
now. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change lets you use the format.subjectprefix config option to override the
default subject prefix.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this option, git-format-patch will generate simple
numbered files as output instead of the default using
with the first commit line appended.
This simplifies the ability to generate an MH-style
drafts folder with each message to be sent.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new option to git-format-patch, entitled --subject-prefix that allows
control of the subject prefix '[PATCH]'. Using this option, the text 'PATCH' is
replaced with whatever input is provided to the option. This allows easily
generating patches like '[PATCH 2.6.21-rc3]' or properly numbered series like
'[-mm3 PATCH N/M]'. This patch provides the implementation and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most of the git-diff-* documentation used [<common diff options>]
instead of [--diff-options], so make that change in git-diff and
git-format-patch.
In addition, git-format-patch didn't include the meanings of the diff
options.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The existing --attach option did not create a true "attachment"
but multipart/mixed with Content-Disposition: inline. It should
have been with Content-Disposition: attachment.
Introduce --inline to add multipart/mixed that is inlined, and
make --attach to create an attachement.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches "git-format-patch" to honor the --max-count
parameter revision traversal machinery takes, so that you can
say "git-format-patch -3" to process the three topmost commits
from the current HEAD (or "git-format-patch -2 topic" to name a
specific branch).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as
SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by
almost every tool. Unfortunately it is only documented in
git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default can also be changed with "format.suffix" configuration.
Leaving it empty would not add any suffix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add the --in-reply-to option to provide a Message-Id for an initial
In-Reply-To/References header, useful for including a new patch series as part
of an existing thread.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add a --thread option to enable generation of In-Reply-To and References
headers, used to make the second and subsequent mails appear as replies to the
first.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Additionally notices and complains to an -o option without
directory or a duplicated -o option, -o and --stdout given
together. Also delays the creation of directory until all
arguments are parsed, so that the command does not leave an
empty directory behind when it exits after seeing an unrelated
invalid option.
[jc: originally from Dennis Stosberg but with minor fixes, and
documentation updates from Dennis.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Don't mention it in docs or --help output.
Remove mbox, date and author variables from git-format-patch.sh.
Use DESCRIPTION text from man-page to update LONG_USAGE output. It's
a bit silly to have two texts saying the same thing in different words,
and I'm too lazy to update both.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation was lacking descriptions for the --signoff and --check
options to git-format-patch. It was also missing the following long
option-names: --output-directory (-o), --numbered (-n), --keep-subject
(-k), --author (-a), --date (-d), and --mbox (-m).
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:
perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
README Documentation/*.txt
perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
README Documentation/*.txt
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
